yes...so today i watched geisha. saw a kabuki-dancer-female-impersonator do geisha dances. the unbelievable grace he exudes shames me, the inflexible klutz. that aside, the geisha culture looks flashy and pretty from the outside, but the lights and colour of Gion seem to mask the efforts taken by girls, and the pain (physical or otherwise) they go through to be entertainers, yet people generalise the geisha to be prostitutes. today's show was eclectic. and that's a nice way of phrasing it. some of the pop fusion shit gave me a bad headache. the shamisen player was terribly impressive. the main-woman (karen something) speaks really really well. i was just soaking it all up and enjoying that. i'm not a big fan of japanese lyrical things though, haikus don't make me go "ahhhhh" in appreciation. i don't appreciate the multiple allusions to the weeping winds and gushing gale (bad alliteration, i know), the woods and the trees and the grass and the flowers and the river and mountains. none of that, please, thank you very much. but i really really loved the story the dances tried to tell. i shouldn't have read the subtitles to the lyrics of the songs. a pretty good show though. i enjoyed it though it was far from my expectations. like wei said, the money was well spent since we saw such graceful dance.
oh yea, i never gave a review of shanghai beauty right? it was interesting. the way the people moved scared me though..it takes a lot of practise to be that fluid and amazing looking! it was serious art though. every individual will interpret it their way. i saw western fusions, wei didn't. i couldn't quite understand the mao thing or the differing perceptions of beauty the dance was supposed to show, but i enjoyed it nonetheless.
arts aside, i hate the way you make me feel. i really do. i seriously don't know why i care so fucking much. blahhhh
